On 9/12/2020 2:22 PM, Char Jackson wrote:
If it were me, and with the benefit of hindsight, I would have bought new
and avoided all of that back and forth. Money isn't tight enough here to
consider buying a used processor or GPU, nor would I try to sell one.

I get what you're saying, but it's not for me.

An RX480 was about $400 new. Then the 2017 Crypto bubble occurred, and
those cards soared up to double or triple their original price, if you
remember. Once the bubble finally burst, prices plunged back down to
around $250 for a new one (well, there were no more new RX480's, they
were only RX580's by then, which was just a rebadged RX480). But used
versions were around $100-$150. Substantial savings still even after new
ones were discounted, and I actually got mine for even less at $90
(which was later fully refunded to me). Also as you saw, a lot of them
still had their original warranties still in effect.

Prior to that I used to buy used parts locally on local classifieds, and
that was even easier to fix if they went wrong, you just recontacted the
guy you bought it from because he was local to you. I still buy locally,
just bought an used AC router locally, to replace another (new) AC
router that I had that went bad, $25 used, $250 when it was new. If
these things work now, then likely they will work for a long time into
the future. Even if they konk out after a few years, you've gotten your
money's worth.

Yousuf Khan